When I increase my Depth and run Xfree86 (with fluxbox) the characters are all mangled up and unreadable. When i decrease depth everything is fine again. What could be the problem?

Tinkster

10-07-2004 02:52 PM

What depth are you using/trying to use?

Cheers,
Tink

Maxicat

10-07-2004 02:57 PM

I didn't want to mention it *cough* it's an old 486 with integrated tseng chipset. I can only manage to have depth 8 max on it. Anything higher X won't start. Depth 4 has ugly colors but normal fonts though.

I am wondering if it could be hsync/vrefresh. I don't know the exact specs for my monitor (have been search for the past week everywhere) but I approximated as best as I could.

Any ideas?

Tinkster

10-07-2004 03:15 PM

Well ... if the chipset is built-in and old you may be
blowing the video ram's possible colour/resolution
combinations ... which res are you trying to run, how
much dedicated RAM has the tseng chip got? :)

Cheers,
Tink

Maxicat

10-07-2004 03:40 PM

I've ran windows on this machine before with perfect colors. As before I'm using 800x600 resolution. And this chip has 1024k, I believe.